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iGov: Geeks Open Up Government

What happens when government agencies allow bulk access to their data in an open, standard file format? An article in the January/February 2009 issue of The Atlantic magazine explains.

iGov: how geeks are opening up government on the Web, by Douglas McGray, reports on the citizen-web developer phenomenon. The article quotes the web manager of San Francisco BART transit system as saying, "It's not 1995. A single Web site is not the endgame anymore."

A related DGI post:
UK and DC Government Data Mash-ups: Winning Ideas

peggygarvin on January 12, 2009 in Web/Tech |

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